AMD Radeon RX 560 Statement from AMD on 896 shader SKUs

Yesterday the story broke that AMD subsequently changed the specification of the Radeon RX 560. Manufacturers and AIB partners are selling slower cards with only 896 instead of 1024 cores, under the s...

It's good to see AMD say they are going to do something about it, but I wonder if it isn't already too late. The simple fact is that despite their statement of apology, AMD released a crippled product under the exact same name as the fully enabled version. It's hard for me to see that as anything but intentionally misleading customers. This reminds me of what Nvidia did with the 9600GSO. The original 9600GSO was a rebranded 8800GS, and came with 96 cores. The newer 9600GSO was based on the 9600GT and only had 48 cores. The original 9600GSO(96 core) was available with 384MB or 768MB of 192-bit DDR3, or 1.5GB of 128-bit DDR2. The new 9600GSO(48 core) was available with 512MB of 256-bit DDR3, or 512MB or 1GB of 128-bit DDR2. Instead of using a unique new name(9600GS), Nvidia started referring to the new card as 9600GSO-512 internally. Much of the advertising and packaging at the time failed to make the distinction, and simply called the new card 9600GSO. This all created confusion for many consumers.